NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed thick, dusty layers of the Cat's Claw Nebula, a region of star formation about ...

SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...

Months after arriving in orbit thanks to a Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, NASA’s newest space ...

A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that some of the galaxy’s molecular gas — the fuel for star birth — might be ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

This finding reveals that dust in starburst galaxies can skew distance measurements, which may impact how astronomers calculate the expansion rate of the universe and interpret other cosmic structures ...

All around the Universe, clouds of gas and dust swirl between stars ... transforms into another under light or heat. These maps are essential for understanding the complex chemistry of space and how ...

A thick plume of sand and dust from the Sahara Desert is seen in these images blowing from the west coast of Africa across the Atlantic Ocean.

Saharan dust cloud crosses Atlantic, impacts air quality, supports ecosystems, tracked using advanced satellites.